South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed allegations that his proposed land reform programme in South Africa will amount to a ‘land grab’, just as US President Donald Trump entered the debate with an inflammatory tweet calling for a report into alleged land expropriation and the ‘large scale killings’ of white farmers in the country.…

With the South African parliament adopting a motion on Land Reform by 241 votes in support and 83 against, the resolution allowing land expropriation without compensation, has now paved way for a Constitutional Review Committee, which has been asked to follow up the issue and must report its findings back to Parliament by 30 August. …